Kieran Horgan.
Fifteen year old Mallow student Kieran Horgan is one of four second-level students in the country to be chosen to represent Ireland at the 28th International High-School Programming Olympiad in Russia this August, where he and his team-mates will compete with 82 countries at the prestigious International Olympiad. Kieran was selected following a three-day intensive programming boot-camp at Dublin City University (Monday June 27th to Wednesday June 29th ) involving the top eight programming students in Ireland. This is Kieran’s first time competing at the Programming Olympiad.
Gary Conway, Programme Manager of the AIPO, DCU School of Computing said: “The upcoming Programming Olympics is an exciting and hugely challenging event. Ireland will pit their wits against the best young minds in the world, competing with programming super-powers such as China, the US and of course the host nation Russia.
“We are sending our top programming students to this competition, after making the selection from a very high quality field. The competition is all about problem solving and computational thinking, all under intense pressure and all vital skills for the world of software programming and the ICT sector.”
The International Olympiad in Informatics is a yearly IT competition for second level students. The first event took place in 1989. The aim of the International Olympiad is to promote an interest in IT among students and to develop IT on the school curriculum.